[Nique]

I'll be editing in character creation in just a bit here, but here's a response to the story stuff:

Originally Posted by Lumenskir

Maybe I'm just super cynical, but I don't think "collateral innocents" feels like enough to end a major conflict like that? I get the sense that it would become more of a rallying cry/doubling down point, rather than something that would seriously cause sides to reconsider what they've done.

Yeah this is probably a fair point. I think what I was trying to imply was a sense of exhaustion or even refusal to fight but it's probably true that this kind of event would lead to an even greater conflict between whoever was allied at that time. I would like to say that I am trying to leave some of the details sufficiently vague to explore in future campaign ideas. It's not set in stone though, I may do some editing to give us more plausibility.

What's magic like in the world? Would it be at all possible to just handwave something like "Yette was destroyed in a way that a [curse/karmic backlash/technobabble] was unleashed, dampening the power of Electronium to personal use only and instantly rendering large scale war machines unusable"? Or is Electronium use more entrenched in society outside of the war machine?

Electronium, despite being lifted from magicite, isn't a magical substance. It conducts electricity so is used in industry, but small quantities can be used by people and interacts with human body in such a way that they can use Electronium to control or alter substances.

I'm guessing the Arm of Arden is supposed to be the Jedi Order/Green Lantern Corps equivalents, but who are their Council of Elders, if you will? Some sort of new U.N.-esque entity, self-policing, whatever? What, in effect, is stopping them from using their exclusive stockpile of awesome Electronium and heroic individuals to go Rule 0 and determine that the only way to effectively safeguard Arden is to assume control? Right now, infinite jurisdiction, unbound from oversight/infinite anonymity, and at-will discretion is ticking off a lot of "absolute power something something corruption" boxes (although that might be a source of baked in tension/the point)?

The Arm of Arden has jurisdiction everywhere, but not over everything. That said, this is still a nutty amount of power for what is basically a 3rd-party UN + Jedi Order so 'absolute power' is totally fodder for the 'baked in' tension as you said.

I'm brainstorming story lines where a minority of ranking Arm leaders make a play at world domination, other stories where the normally appreciated presence of the Arm causes tension or is even outright challenged.

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I have made a fairly large update and edited some rules for accuracy/ clarity.